Star Trek MMO
Ok i’m hooked signed up for the beta. I will be in line with Talos at midnight to get my hands on it. Granted i’ll be up for the next 3 days playing straight.
Qaup’la, mother fracker!
I can command my own Federation starship?! I AM IN.
Wow, looks very cool!!
As you mentioned on the 'cast, this coudl still go sideways…but, it’s looking better so far.
I’m interested to know what continuity this game is in. Is this still in the Prime universe, and if so, why are the Klingons and Federation at war? Does it happen some time after Nemesis, and alliances have maybe degraded? Some of the ships look like juiced up Constitution-class vessels, but the uniforms are definitely DS9/Voyager era. Is this maybe an offshoot of the reboot universe? Or, like the 70s, has Kirk-era style come back into fashion in the Alpha Quadrant?
It looks, too, like the Romulans might be a playable race. I hope to see more of that.
Did anyone ever play Star Trek: Armada? I was heavily addicted to that game for years. While it had many weaknesses, it was great on the balance between races, and drawing out their personalities by the types of weapons and abilities their ships had. Your strategy differed (at least, in the beginning of a match) depending on who you started out as.
It looks like the Prime universe, post Nemesis. As you noted, diplomacy seems to have… switched to the ‘phasers & torpedo’ variety.
TNG established that there were plenty of refit-era ships still flying around. Lots of Oberth class ships (the research vessel from Star Trek 3 that’s the unfortunate recipient of a ‘lucky shot’ while in orbit around Genesis), Frasier rammed his slightly out-of-date ‘Soyuz’ class ship (basically, the Reliant from Khan with some antennas glued on) into the Enterprise-D repeatedly, but I suppose that had been in bit of a time warp. There is, you see, the theory of the moebius. A… rift in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop. Where time becomes a loop.
Anyhow, there are still some Liberty Ships in service now that were build in WWII, and space should be a less corrosive environment than salt-water, I assume.
It’s certainly too bad that we have to undo all the good accomplished by the original crew and their successors just so we can have a fighting game between the Federation and the Klingons.
Anyhow, there are still some Liberty Ships in service now that were build in WWII, and space should be a less corrosive environment than salt-water, I assume.
Salient point, Sir Screech.
Aggressive negotiation. d:
Still if it’s post Voyager, the Federation should have a substantial technological advantage thanks to future Janeway’s modifications.
If it’s the Federation, presumably they’ve taken all of her technology and locked it up in a warehouse where top men are working on it. TOP MEN.
I come to this conclusion based on the number of times various Trek crews have rigged up some fantastic new technology or device to deus ex machina themselves out of a fix, only to never hear of it again in subsequent episodes.
I’m certain there’s extensive fan-fiction dealing with the problem of how this anti-Borg technology “doesn’t work anymore” and how that relates to Ensign Kim then passionately embracing Seven of Nine and so on.
Lol! Thunderscreech, you’re awesome you know that?
My wife says basically the same thing to me all the time, except she replaces the word You’re with “Shut” and Awesome with “Up”. 
I am as well, because not only are the Federation at war with the Klingon’s but we can clearly see the Borg present.
“Awesome yours, Thunderscreech!”
I mean, “You’re awesome, Thunderscreech!” 
I also wonder if players are defined by their characters or their ships. Do you serve on vessels like you do in guilds in Warcraft, or does everyone command their own ship?
I’m just wondering, 'cause, if there was a U.S.S. Watercooler, that would get me to start playing my first MMO.
Lol! You have to be careful you don’t say anything that will stick, Screech (jk, I won’t start calling you that).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_trek_online
According to the official website, each player will be captain of his or her own ship, with explicit mention of a “Federation Captain” and a “Klingon Warrior” as possibilities. It also stated that players will be able to beam down onto the surfaces of different planets “for face-to-face confrontations”. Exploration of the inside of starships will, at launch be limited to the bridge and certain episodes (missions) however, it has been stated by Cryptic that they will introduce fully explorable starship interiors not too long after launch.
Sounds kinda like the kind of promises they were making in Star Wars Galaxies. I wonder how that mechanic would work… you’re captaining a ship, then you walk elsewhere in the ship and… your XO takes over? Another player can be given command? Or your ship pulls a Troi and plows into the nearest planet?
Ideally, it would be sweet to have a game where the big ships operate under EVE style controls, basically the “Command to do X” model, while small ships could be piloted manually, Wing Commander/Freespace style.
Of course, the game that would make me happiest would allow me to buy myself a ship and operate outside of the bounds of the Federation/Klingon Empire/etc except as where my “rep”/alignment affects how they respond to me.
Sounds like you want a mix of Eve and Star Wars, but with Trek ships?
Hey, I’d play that game myself now that I think about it!
ToR (characters look awful) and STO (seems meh-ish) don’t interest me and EVE (frakking griefers) is too unkind to carebears.
At the moment, I’m looking forward to FFXIV and that’s it. ToR would be up my alley (love Bioware), but I don’t think I can get past looking at wax figures while playing.